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I didn't quite understand what was unique about the application of crypto in your product. I had assumed from the headline it was a productized homomorphic encryption, but at least at first glance I'm thinking it is more a productized implementation of a key-value store with records encrypted client side. Is that correct?

Close. It's not a key value store, but rather an object database (with design goals similar to ZODB[1])

You can use an Object DB like a key value store, but there's a much richer feature set available.

You can also share objects securely with other users of the application for building multi user collaborative apps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope_Object_Database

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